A POST SASSANIAN SILVER BOWL

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A POST SASSANIAN SILVER BOWL
PERSIA, CIRCA 9TH CENTURY

Of shallow hemispherical form, the centre with a small roundel depicting a bird with scrolling wings, headdress and with a similar branch in its beak, the rim gold washed, central roundel re-fixed, repaired damages to side.
5½in. (14cm.) diam.

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Vessels of Sassanian inspiration with similar bird figures have been published in Smirnov, Argenterie Orientale, St. Petersburg, 1909, pls.LV and LVI. The latter was found in Tchourinskaia, Waitka Province.